Thursday, March 7, 2013

Five Quotes from Patti Smith

“Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the
book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a
book.”

“Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.”

“For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should
desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This
beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our
companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.”“I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”
“I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age.
Everybody says its finished ... art's finished, rock and roll is dead,
God is dead. Fuck that! This is my chance in the world. I
didn't live back there in Mesopotamia, I wasn't there in the Garden of
Eden, I wasn't there with Emperor Han, I'm right here right now and I
want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realise
that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time
to flower is now.”

One More...

“The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in
order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and
incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do
his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical
communication and the labor of creation.”